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what does "butt-headed"mean?
Work was light and Jody spent long hours with Flag. The fawn was growing fast. His legs were long and spindling. Jody discovered one day that his light spots, the emblem of deer infancy, had disappeared. He ex-amined the smooth hard head at once for signs of horns. Penny saw him at it and was obliged to laugh at him.
"You shore expect wonders, boy. He'll be butt-headed 'til summer. He'll not have no horns 'til he's a yearlin'. Then they'll be leetle ol' spiky ones."Jody knew a content that filled him with a warm and lazy wonder. Even Oliver Hutto's desertion and the Forresters' withdrawal were dis-tant ills that scarcely concerned him. Almost every day he took his gun and shot-bag and went to the woods with Flag. The black-jack oaks were no longer red but a rich brown. There was frost every morning. It made the scrub glitter like a forest full of Christmas trees. It reminded him that Christmas was not far away.Q2: what does "lazy wonder"mean?
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what does this "￠"mean?
this is a line in a shopping list, what does this "￠"mean?
【1 bottle caster oil 50￠ 】
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what does "chipperdale"mean?
He heard him say, "I got news for you. Buck told me Oliver Hutto takened a boat from Jacksonville to Boston and figgered on bein' there a while before he shipped agin. He give Twink Weatherby money and she slipped off to Jacksonville and got on a boat and follered him. Lem's rarin'. He says do he meet Twink and Oliver, he'll kill 'em all two."
Jody heard his mother's bulk, turning, creak the bed.
She said, "Now if the gal's honest, why don't Oliver marry her and be done with it? If she's nothin' but one o' them leetle ol' chipperdales, why do he mess up with her?"
"I couldn't rightly say. Been so long sincet I was a young buck, studyin' on courtin', I disremember how Oliver mought figger."
"Anyways, he hadn't ought to of let her foller him that-a-way."
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does "cured"here=take care of? or =deal with?
A month after the flood, in October, he returned with Jody in the wag-on beside him to Mullet Prairie to gather the cut and cured hay. Rip and Julia trotted along behind the wagon. Penny allowed Flag, too, to follow for he had begun to make a great commotion whenever he was shut up and left behind in the shed. He ran, sometimes ahead of old C.sar, sometimes, when the road was wide enough, beside him. Now and then
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what does "cured"here mean?
A month after the flood, in October, he returned with Jody in the wag-on beside him to Mullet Prairie to gather the cut and cured hay. Rip and Julia trotted along behind the wagon. Penny allowed Flag, too, to follow for he had begun to make a great commotion whenever he was shut up and left behind in the shed. He ran, sometimes ahead of old C.sar, sometimes, when the road was wide enough, beside him. Now and then
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what does " eased himself to his feet"mean?
It seemed almost at their feet. Jody's flesh crept. It might be Fodder-wing's Spaniard. Were ha'nts susceptible, like mortals, he wondered, to flood and rain? Did they yearn to warm their thin transparent hands at a hunter's camp-fire? Penny eased himself to his feet and fumbled for a pine knot for a torch. He lit it at the fire and started forward cautiously. The sighing sound had ceased. Jody followed close behind him. There was a rustling. Penny swung the torch. A pair of eyes, red as a bull-bat's, caught the light. He shifted the light. He laughed. The visitor was an al-ligator from the pond.
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what does "same dog bit me"mean?
Buck said, "Now if I knowed they'd feed you this good in Heaven, I'd not holler when I die."
Mill-wheel said, "Rations tastes a heap better in the woods. I'd ruther eat cold bread in the woods than hot puddin' in the house."
"Now you know," Penny said, "the same dog bit me."
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what does "the two-way mirror"mean?
“I didn’t kill Lindsay! Landon killed her, and you cops let him get away with it. Money, family name, that’s why she’s dead and he’s free, and he’s lording it in a house that’s rightfully mine.”
Corbett glanced toward the two-way mirror, gave the faintest nod. Nearly sighed. He hoped he wasn’t making a mistake, but a deal was a deal.
“How do you know Landon killed her?”
“Because he did. She was afraid of him.”
“She told you she was afraid of her husband?”
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what does "at the small of"mean?
“Yes, sir.” Vinnie pulled Suskind to his feet, pushed him to face the wall to check for other weapons. He removed the holster secured at the small of Suskind’s back, passed it to the other deputy. “You’re under arrest for breaking and entering, trespassing, destruction of private property,” he began as he cuffed Suskind’s wrists. “Additional charges include two counts of assault. Looks like we get to add concealing a dangerous weapon and intent to injure onto that.”
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Q1: does "i've got your back"="I have you to support me?"
“You just want to play in the secret passage.”
“Well, who wouldn’t? He hurt you, Eli. He hurt my friend. He would have hurt me. I’m not going to sit at Maureen’s. Together, or not at all.”
“That sounds like an ultimatum.”
“Because it is.” She lifted her shoulders, let them fall in the most casual gesture. “We can fight about it. You can get mad, I can be in-sulted. I just don’t see the point, especially on such a gorgeous morning when we’re in love. The point I see, Eli, is I’ve got your back. And I know you’ve got mine.”
What the hell was he supposed to do with that? “It might not work.”“Negative thinking’s unproductive. Plus, past history and pattern say it will work. This could be over, Eli, or at the very least he could be in police custody, charged with breaking and entering, maybe destruc-tion of property, by tonight. And he’d be questioned on all the rest.”
She leaned forward. “When that happens, Wolfe’s going to have his first taste of crow.”
“You had that ace up your sleeve,” Eli replied.
“It’s karma time, Eli.”Q2: what does "past history and pattern say it will work"mean? what does "pattern"here mean?Q3: what does "have his forst taste of crow"mean?Q4:does "ace up your sleeve"= the way she has to accomplish sth?
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